Rachel Portman - Beyond the Screen Film Works Piano Solo Book

Rachel Portman - Beyond the Screen Film Works Piano Solo Book 📚

Level - Intermediate-Late Intermediate 

19 Film Favourites Composed by Rachel Portman for Piano Solo including w ell-known soundtracks such as Chocolat, The Cider House Rules or The Duchess, as well as a piano suite from her Oscar-winning original score Emma.

With Beyond the Screen, Rachel Portman has curated some of her most cherished film music for solo piano. She refers to the piano as her best friend, adding "I spend all day with it, most days. I think probably I'm pianistic in my soul." Hence, piano miniatures are a natural second life for her highly melodic scores.

Portman was very selective, however, about which pieces would translate best without an orchestra: "I wanted them to be pieces that work in their own way, that are satisfying."The album comprises various new solo piano arrangements by the composer based on her well-known soundtracks such as Chocolat, The Cider House Rules or The Duchess, as well as a piano suite from her Oscar-winning original score Emma.

Portman has been scoring films and television for 40 years and has composed over 100 scores for film, TV and theatre, becoming the first woman to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Musical or Comedy Score in 1996 for Emma and the first woman to receive a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Mini Series, Movie or a Special in 2015 for Bessie. 96 pages. 2023 release. 

Song Titles Include:

• 1. Chocolat [Rachel Portman]
• 2. Emma [Rachel Portman]
• 3. Never Let Me Go [Rachel Portman]
• 4. One Day [Rachel Portman]
• 5. Goodnight You Kings of New England [Rachel Portman]
• 6. The Duchess [Rachel Portman]
• 7. Letterbox [Rachel Portman]
• 8. Girl Rising [Rachel Portman]
• 9. Still Life [Rachel Portman]
• 10. Vianne Sets Up Shop [Rachel Portman]
• 11. The Cider House Rules [Rachel Portman]
• 12. I'd Miss You [Rachel Portman]
• 13. Snow Story [Rachel Portman]
• 14. Passage of Time [Rachel Portman]
• 15. Frozen Lake [Rachel Portman]
• 16. Life Is Sweet [Rachel Portman]
• 17. Book of Photographs [Rachel Portman]
• 18. The Last Dinner [Rachel Portman]
• 19. The Pier [Rachel Portman]